Some of the staff members at High Meadows Branch Library decorated a pumpkin for this Halloween seasons Pumpkin Decorating Contest. These wonderful and creative pumpkins are out on display in the library and are waiting for your vote! Stop by High Meadows Branch Library and vote for your favorite pumpkin today! Voting will start Monday October 20th during regular library operating hours and end on Saturday October 25th. We will announce the winner of the Pumpkin Decorating contest on Monday October 27th. See you here!

Calling all kids kindergarten through third grade! Enter your story for a chance to win a national contest and have your story published online at pbskids.org/read. If you or someone you know has a child that loves to write and has great stories to tell, have them pick up an application at High Meadows Library. The deadline to apply is Monday, March 17, 2014. Also, please check out our events calendar to check out what else is going on at High Meadows.

They traveled the globe with their Friends of the Library book bag and now they're winners, each receiving a travel book and a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card . See the winners and learn more about how you can enter the next "Traveling Book Bag Adventure Contest."

The teens at the Aldine Branch won the online voting portion of the Story Tubes contest for their book trailer for The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer. Out of all the videos submitted, theirs was voted the best by the viewers. Way to go!

As you know, the teens of the Aldine Branch Library have been hard at work on many projects. Along with creating digital stories and decorating the Young Adult area of the library, they also became semi-finalists for a national contest sponsored by IdeaPaint! How great is that?!

Watch the video the teens made and cast your vote for the Harris County Public Library. You can vote once a day until December 4th, so don’t wait.

And spread the word! Let’s supports the teens and all of their hard work.

Enter for a chance to win an all expense-paid trip to meet Discovery-Planet Green reality TV stars The Fabulous Beekman Boys in Sharon Springs, NY, take a tour of the Beekman 1802 Farm, and have dinner with Josh and Brent!

Fill out the entry form with your favorite family heirloom recipe and tell us what makes the recipe so special to you, then give it to one of our librarians to be entered for a chance to win a signed copy of The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook and a grand prize trip, farm tour, and dinner.

Information for Persons with Disabilities: Harris County Public Library will make reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities who are interested in attending library programs. To make a request for yourself or someone you know, please notify the Branch Librarian two working days in advance of the program.